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...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
Through the week, from freight trains and field kitchens dotted among the tents, food gushed like gravel from a stone-crusher. Into the maws of cooking pots went some 1,500 cows, 7,000 pigs, 1,320,000 pounds of potatoes, 176,000 pounds of vegetables to come out stews and soups for the blond, Aryan party members...
...discarded as too expensive and too risky, and cellular coffer dams of sheet steel were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
...mail in a bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger across the aisle] and saw him still strapped in and then suddenly he was flying through...
...physician refers a patient to another for a price-is almost as widespread in the U. S. as it is in France, where it has been regulated. So flagrant has the practice become in New York City, where medical competition is keen and many a physician has to scratch gravel to survive, that last week the president of the Association of Private Hospitals Inc. called in the press to expostulate...